Your final project for 2nd marking period will be in groups of three about the Revolutionary War. Research important events to compile their information into a scrapbook which shows your understanding of key events, people and ideals. Your group will focus on three time periods: 1. Before the war, 2. During the Revolutionary War 3. After the war. Each group will be responsible for a minimum of one visual and one writing entry for each time period (per person) of the Revolution. Each entry will have a writing piece and may range from a variety of genres: (Newspaper Article, Persuasive letter, or Diary entry). Each of you will pretend to be an imaginary colonist that “is alive” during the American Revolution. Part 1 – The events that lead the colonies to the American Revolution, examples of events/things that were before the revolution (Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, and Intolerable Acts, Quartering Act).
Choose to make yourself a Patriot, or Loyalist.
Entry will be either be a Newspaper Article, Persuasive Letter, or Diary Entry about one of the events listed above.
A good example would be…
You are a patriot writing a letter to a cousin in England, explaining what happened at the Boston Massacre,
Another option: 2. Maybe you are a Newspaper reporter and you feel the need to write about the taxes and how they are unfair.
Part 2 – Will focus on the Revolutionary War itself: the fighting, the battles, the deaths. Research specific battles (Battle of Trenton, Lexington and Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle at Yorktown, Winter at Valley Forge). Or you can also write about or include people that were fighting in the War: George Washington, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, etc.
Letter, Newspaper Article or Diary
Good examples:
You could write a diary entry as a soldier under General George Washington as they sneak across the Delaware River on Christmas Eve. (Use details and make it as if we are there with you on your journey).
You could reflect on your time as a soldier, struggling for survival during the famous winter, camping at Valley forge.
You could choose to create a newspaper article, recalling the events and reactions to the many battles of the American Revolution
Part 3 - Focus on the problems facing the New country - that is the United States, Remember the United States just won its Independence, it has ongoing problems that arise. Examples: who leads the new government, how long, what will the government do for money, what rules should we have, how can we protect ourselves from other countries that want our land? etc. OR:
Reaction to the failed attempts at government
Election of the first president
Establishments for the foundations of Government and Constitution
Final copy due January 26, 2017.
Your final project for 2nd marking period will be in groups of three about the Revolutionary War. Research important events to compile their information into a scrapbook which shows your understanding of key events, people and ideals.
Your group will focus on three time periods:
1. Before the war,
2. During the Revolutionary War
3. After the war.
Each group will be responsible for a minimum of one visual and one writing entry for each time period (per person) of the Revolution.
Each entry will have a writing piece and may range from a variety of genres: (Newspaper Article, Persuasive letter, or Diary entry).
Each of you will pretend to be an imaginary colonist that “is alive” during the American Revolution.
Part 1 – The events that lead the colonies to the American Revolution, examples of events/things that were before the revolution
(Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, and Intolerable Acts, Quartering Act).
- Choose to make yourself a Patriot, or Loyalist.
- Entry will be either be a Newspaper Article, Persuasive Letter, or Diary Entry about one of the events listed above.
A good example would be…- You are a patriot writing a letter to a cousin in England, explaining what happened at the Boston Massacre,
Another option:2. Maybe you are a Newspaper reporter and you feel the need to write about the taxes and how they are unfair.
Part 2 – Will focus on the Revolutionary War itself: the fighting, the battles, the deaths.
Research specific battles (Battle of Trenton, Lexington and Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle at Yorktown, Winter at Valley Forge).
Or you can also write about or include people that were fighting in the War: George Washington, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, etc.
- Letter, Newspaper Article or Diary
Good examples:- You could write a diary entry as a soldier under General George Washington as they sneak across the Delaware River on Christmas Eve. (Use details and make it as if we are there with you on your journey).
- You could reflect on your time as a soldier, struggling for survival during the famous winter, camping at Valley forge.
- You could choose to create a newspaper article, recalling the events and reactions to the many battles of the American Revolution
Part 3 - Focus on the problems facing the New country - that is the United States, Remember the United States just won its Independence, it has ongoing problems that arise.Examples: who leads the new government, how long, what will the government do for money, what rules should we have, how can we protect ourselves from other countries that want our land? etc.
OR:
Websites to start research on your scrapbook:
Info. on different events to research:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle.html
Info. on viewpoints and Daily Life of the people during the 1770s.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/perspectives.html
Good source of short info. about a wide range of subjects during the Revolution (Click on the sideways tabs on the top):
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=3&smtID=1
Primary Source Document written by colonists in 1774
http://founding.com/founders-library/government-documents/federal-government-documents/declaration-and-resolves-1774/